Mandy Still Looks For Better Days

Sheila Mandy has 25 goals and 11 assists in just 12 games but the Longwood Lyman senior feels her play this season has plenty of room for improvement.

That's pretty lofty goals given thatMandy just has been named the Seminole Sentinel's Player of the Week.

Mandy, a senior right wing on the unbeaten Greyhounds' girls soccer team, is far ahead of her pace of last year when she led the team with 29 goals in 24 games. Yet, like all of the Greyhounds, Mandy feels only continual improvement will keep them headed toward another shot at the state playoffs.

Mandy and the rest of the Greyhounds are not talking about repeating as state champions. They speak in terms of only being successful in the next game.

''I've got to work on my shot selection,'' Mandy said. ''I've got to start getting the ball on frame.''

Mandy was ''right on frame'' most of the time last week when she scored seven goals and chipped in with three assists in Lyman victories over Oviedo and Winter Park.

It was the fifth time this season Many has scored three goals in a game.

''It's a long season,'' Mandy said. ''There's still a long way to go.''

In claiming the player of the week honor Mandy did so over several other athletes who turned in outstanding performances.

Eric Reesman of Casselberry Lake Howell scored five times in a soccer victory over Sanford Seminole.

Rod Henderson of Seminole's boys basketball team keyed three victories with 41 points, 20 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 steals. He also had five blocked shots.